... for Destruction and in 2009 his Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War against the West. This is the analysis that informs the strategic 'thinking' in The Field of Fight. Iran, we are told, has been waging war against the United States 'for nearly forty years', 'has long supported al Qaeda' and the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa were 'in large part Iranian operations'. The anti-American global alliance of which Iran is the lynchpin includes both 'ISIS and al Qaeda' and the consequences if the United States were to be defeated would be horrendous. Remember, Flynn has already expressed the opinion that this alliance are winning! Americans would find themselves living ...

... , not just what appeared in today's broadcasts or papers but what happened before that? Where did all that happen? Who are the people involved and with whom are they involved? These are the details of chronology, geography and genealogy. History occurs in a context not of minutes but years, decades, even centuries. When the US embassy in Iran was seized after the overthrow of the Shah, none of the respectable media explained that the Shah had been installed by the CIA after having overthrown the elected Iranian government. Even a media outlet generally assigned to the US Left produced a report on the anniversary of the Iranian revolution that omitted information it had reported at the time ...

... why they must be remedied; and outlined how he will try to do so. Seldom in America's history has an enemy laid out so clearly the basis for the war he is waging against it.’ He claims President Bill Clinton passed up many more opportunities to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden than Bush.5 4 In 1998 al-Qaeda successfully attacked two US embassies in East Africa and in 2000 it bombed the USS Cole in Aden. US intelligence was also aware of an al-Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000 and that two of the alleged hijackers had been traced from it to California soon afterwards.5 5 A Defence Intelligence Agency unit called Able Danger had identified Mohammed Atta and three other alleged hijackers operating ...

... the sections here on India and South America may well be as new to you as they were to me. Robin Ramsay 5 Whitney is probably right. 'An interview in 1988 given by a former Pakistani military official further corroborates this. According to this Pakistani military official, eight months before the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad had asked Pakistani military officials to "to recommend a rebel organization that would make the best use of U.S. aid."' <https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297a/ Afghanistan,%20the%20United%20States.htm> ...

... his attainment of notoriety from the Angolan recruitment, he authored a (shortish) book which, from its cover image, seems to have been aimed at the pulp readership end of the market.1 0 Since then he has continued to amuse and bemuse in equal measure with his antics. Convicted of 'demanding $250,000' from the Nicaraguan embassy in London in return for information he claimed to hold regarding 'A contract 8 See the archived UPI report 'Seven British mercenaries, released unexpectedly after eight years' at <http://www.upi.com/Archives/ 1984/02/28/Seven-British-mercenaries-released -unexpectedly-after- eight-yearsin/5976446792400/>. 9 The Age (Melbourne, Australia) 13 ...

... time. Nevertheless, the Americans were given every assistance short of 'boots on the ground'. As Aldrich and Cormac reveal, GCHQ provided the Americans with 'volumes of signals intelligence' to help their war effort and the Americans were allowed to operate their 'largest CIA station in the region' out of Hong Kong. MI6 agents in the British Embassy in Hanoi provided intelligence reports on the effect of US bombing that were passed on to Washington. All this took place 'below the radar of British public opinion'. However, according to Aldrich and Cormac the extent of the British role in the 1965 destruction of the Left in Indonesia that brought Suharto to power and saw over half a ...

... that Burgess went to Russia for reasons of Cold War espionage.’ 'No foundation' is not the same as 'no truth', and Biswell provides a moment of unintentional comedy in the following passage: 4 Andrew Biswell, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, (London: Picador, 2006) p.236 'When I asked a former diplomat from the Russian embassy about the possibility that Burgess was secretly employed by British intelligence, he told me that a volubly indiscreet drunk such as Burgess, who also happened to be married to a suicidal alcoholic, would have been solidly at the bottom of the list when it came to recruiting potential secret agents, in spite of his considerable linguistic talents.’ 5 The ...

... were, to say the least, ill-chosen and unwise. At a time when accusations of anti-Semitism are being used as a stick with which to beat the Left, he played into the hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media waiting for an opportunity to attack, Livingstone unwittingly but still inexcusably provided them with one. With the exception of his assertion that Hitler's supposed descent into madness was responsible for the Holocaust, his remarks were true. But the dynamic of the Holocaust ...

... 'unlawfully detained'. He's an odd-looking fellow, and hasn't he been accused of rape? Why shouldn't he go and face the music in Sweden for that? Especially if he's as innocent as he claims. And – the final straw – how could he be said to be 'unlawfully detained' when he detained himself? (In the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid extradition.) Well, my longish piece of about a year ago explains pretty clearly, I think, how and why.1 I've little to add to that. It still stands. The UN ruling bears me out to the hilt. (He's 'unlawfully detained' because bad legal judgments have restricted his freedom of ...

... Harvey Oswald's 'Historic Diary' Garrick Alder Lee Oswald's 'Historic Diary' has always aroused suspicions. Written in Oswald's distinctive hand, and complete with his dyslexic traits, it ostensibly records his stay behind the Iron Curtain during his defection from the USA between 1959 and 1962. The very text itself is suspect, containing several anachronisms (references to US embassy staff not in situ on the dates of the diary entries in question, for example) and other details that just don't ring true at all. Perhaps the loudest discordant note is in the entry commencing 4 January 1961, in which Oswald bemoans his (by Soviet standards rather luxurious) circumstances: 'The work is drap [sic] ...